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Mia Wasikowska in an orange shirt and brown skirt walks in front of a school campus building with students behind her.
Review

Club Zero review – leaves a sour taste

by Hannah Strong

Jes­si­ca Haus­ner’s dra­ma about a teacher who begins a trou­bling diet club at an elite high school is a poor­ly-judged slog to sit through.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Woman singing on stage with fairy lights in the background, performing at a dimly lit venue.
Review

Bergman Island

by Lillian Crawford

Mia Hansen-Løve’s lilt­ing rumi­na­tion on art, rela­tion­ships and cinephil­ia is one of her most accom­plished and mov­ing films to date.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Two people in close embrace, wearing red clothing, under warm lighting in a dimly lit setting.
Review

Judy & Punch

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Mia Wasikows­ka turns the tables on her male oppres­sor in this sub­ver­sive take on the tra­di­tion­al mar­i­onette show.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Close-up of a man's face in warm light, with half-closed eyes and a serious expression.
Review

Piercing

by Elena Lazic

Mia Wasikows­ka and Christo­pher Abbot play wicked games in this psy­cho­sex­u­al horror.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Eccentric man with wild orange hair, wearing a red hat, holds an ornate golden frame in a lush, natural setting.
Review

Alice Through the Looking Glass

by Anton Bitel

There’s charm, humour and no short­age of strange­ness in this rad­i­cal rewrit­ing of Lewis Carroll’s clas­sic tale.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Blonde woman with long hair holding a candelabra in a dimly lit room.
Review

Crimson Peak

by David Jenkins

Guiller­mo del Toro’s lux­u­ri­ant Goth­ic romance is the full cin­e­mat­ic package.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A woman with long blonde hair, wearing a black top, resting her head on her hands at a kitchen counter, with a cup and crumpled tissues nearby.
Review

Maps to the Stars

by Violet Lucca

David Cro­nen­berg indulges in a grotesque inter-fam­i­ly orgy on the gold­en side­walks of Hollywood.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A person wearing a dark hooded jacket, with only their eyes visible, appearing in a shadowy, dramatic lighting.
Review

The Double

by Anton Bitel

Richard Ayoade branch­es out into steam­punk para­noia with this feisty and fun­ny adap­ta­tion of Fyo­dor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Two women wearing sunglasses sit together in a dimly lit, futuristic setting with colourful lights in the background.
Review

Only Lovers Left Alive

by David Jenkins

The mod­ern world is a strange and beau­ti­ful place in Jim Jarmusch’s melan­choly vam­pire masterpiece.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Two individuals, a woman and a man, standing near a grand piano in a room.
Review

Stoker

by Adam Woodward

Oper­at­ic style can’t paste over the mea­gre, far-fetched sub­stance in Old­boy direc­tor Park Chan-wook’s Eng­lish-lan­guage debut.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Two women sitting on a couch, one woman with glasses appears to be older while the other woman has her arm around her.
Review

The Kids Are All Right

by Adam Woodward

Annette Ben­ing and Julianne Moore shine in this sear­ing­ly fun­ny tale of mid­dle-age anxiety.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A young woman in a blue dress sitting in a hollowed-out tree trunk, surrounded by moss and foliage.
Review

Alice in Wonderland

by Anton Bitel

Tim Bur­ton has always been a visu­al sto­ry­teller and his Alice is a source of visu­al wonder.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect